Blog Posts as Student Writing Assignments
During a recent email conversation with Jeff Nugent at Virginia Commonwealth University, Jeff pointed to a recent blog post of his about …
Experiments in Class Participation – An Update on My Cryptography Course
Back in early August here on the blog, I described a few “experiments” in more public class participation I planned to implement …
Student Motivation and Class Participation – Lessons from “Cognitive Surplus”
More thoughts on Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age… As I mentioned the last time, …
More Cryptography Questions
Here are a couple more clicker questions I tried out in my cryptography class recently. “Cryptography was the decisive factor in the …
One-Best-Answer Questions
You may have noticed I haven’t been blogging as frequently this summer. That due, in part, to the fact that I’m teaching …